{"id":123535,"date":"2019-03-05T13:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=123535"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:13:36","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:13:36","slug":"nearly-half-of-dominicans-live-below-poverty-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/03\/05\/nearly-half-of-dominicans-live-below-poverty-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Nearly half of Dominicans live below poverty line"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A study carried out by the Juan Bosch Foundation and the Development Cooperation Institute (ISCOS in Italian) has revealed that 47% of Dominicans are living below the poverty line. The study is called \u201cThe analysis of the announcements made by President Danilo Medina and a comparison to the real numbers in terms of employment, salaries, poverty and<\/g> pensions\u201d, and is based on figures from the Central Bank. The report concluded that the ,<\/g><\/g> the average income per person\/household was RD$4,644 in 2016. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report states that between 2014 and 2017 some 380,608 new jobs were created, of which 47% were in the informal sector and in 2017, some 121,066 new jobs were created of which 66.7% were informal, that is they are part of an economy that is neither taxed nor monitored by any form of government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Comparing the data provided by President Medina, in his state of the nation speech on 27 of February 2019, they said that 60% of people have an average income of RD$11,734 that is below the cost of the cheapest family basket which is RD$13,346.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mat\u00edas Bosch Carcuro, Edgar Garc\u00eda and Cabrera Airon Fern\u00e1ndez said that the majority of the Dominican working population earn much less than is needed to survive with 80% earning less than RD$17,000 that is much less than the average family basket estimated at RD$23,422. They criticized that President Danilo Medina had announced the public sector minimum wage would be doubled to RD$10,000 when the amount does not even cover the cheapest family basket. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 March 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A study carried out by the Juan Bosch Foundation and the Development Cooperation Institute (ISCOS in Italian) has revealed that 47% of Dominicans are living below the poverty line. The study is called \u201cThe analysis of the announcements made by President Danilo Medina and a comparison to the real numbers in terms of employment, salaries, … <\/p>\n

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